Appraisal Approach to Conflict Styles

This book contributes to the existing Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) literature in several ways. It expands SFL’s empirical scope to understudied, high-stakes institutional contexts like mediation, enriching our understanding of register and genre. Methodologically, this research bridges computational data mining with SFL’s meaning-oriented tradition, providing a solution to the ‘delicacy v...